Device for delivering tobacco to cigar and other similar machines.



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DEVICE FOR DELIVERING TOBACCO T0 CIGAR AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.11, 1912.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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DEVICE FOR DELIVERING TOBACCO T0 CIGAR AND OTHER SIMILAR MACHINES.

Application filed September 11, 1912.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE BELOT, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at 319 Rue de Charenton, Paris, in the Republie of France, engineer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Delivering Tobacco to Cigar and other Similar Machines, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to devices for delivering tobacco cut up into short and dry lengths to form the interior of machine made cigars, or for supplying material to any other similar machine.

One embodiment of this invention is shown by way of example in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a section on the line A-A and 13 13 of Fig. 2. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively sections on the lines O-O and DD of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: shows in elevation and in section the details of a sector. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the means for operating the movable bottom.

The delivery device consists of a casing 1, into which is delivered the material which must be supplied in a regular quantity to the opening 2 of a drawer 3. Said reciprocating drawer carries to the members of the machine, the material measured by the volume or size of the opening 2. The bottom 4: of the casing is formed by a movable sheet metal plate, inclined toward the opening 2 in the longitudinal direction; the lateral surfaces 5 of such metal plate are also inclined toward the center of the casing in the transversal direction. The edges of the surfaces 5 rest on guides 6 which follow the general slope of the bottom 4: so as to allow of the latter reciprocating according to such slope. Such reciprocation is transmitted to the bottom by an arm 7 secured to the latter and which carries a roller 8 actuated by an oblique surface 9 provided at the end of a lever 10 fixed on a spindle 11. The roller 8 is kept on the surface 9 by a spring 12 secured to the block 13 serving as a support for the casing 1. The spindle 11 swings in bearings 14 secured underneath the table 15 which supports the drawer 3. On the other side of the casing a spindle 16 swings in bearings 17. On the spindles 11 and 16 are fixed respectively the levers 18 and 19 carrying the sectors 20 and 21. The levers are connected by a link 22 which Specification of Letters ?atent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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associates the motions of the two sectors 20 and 21 which lie in the middle of the vertical plane of the opening 2. A spring 23 secured to the link 22 and to a fixed point of the table 15, pulls the lower portions of the levers 18 and 19 toward the left of Fig. 2. On the spindle 11 is secured a lever 2 1 carrying a roller 25 which bears on a cam 26 fixed on the camshaft 27 of the machine.

The operation of such apparatus is as follows :The higher parts of the cam 26 periodically lift the lever 10 which, by its inclined end, drives the roller 8 and, consequently, the bottom 4.- of the casing toward the left of Fig. 1. If the material contained in the casing is not much compressed above the opening 2, the spring 12 restores the bottom of the casing to its initial position. But if the material is fairly compressed, it

' exerts on the portion 28 of the movable bottom a pressure which counter-balances the action of the contracting spring 12. hereupon the bottom of the casing will no longer be restored to its initial position and the roller 8 will no longer be, during the whole of the stroke, in contact with the inclined plane 9. Thus the stroke of the bottom 4 of the casing will be variable and will be all the less as the opening 2 is better provided with material. The movable bottom is pierced with holes 29 to sift and eliminate dust. The sectors 20 and 21, which come alternatively to the entrance of the opening 2, only uncover one half of such opening at one and the same time. The opening thus fills itself successively at one end and then at the other end and without allowing any great mass of material to penetrate all at once into the opening as would occur if a single piston uncovered all at once the top of the opening. Furthermore the sectors 20 and 21 move alternatively and laterally away so they do not prevent the supply of the material to the opening in the vertical plane above the latter. So in the'hereinbefore described apparatus the regular supply of the material of the opening 2 is insured: Firstly, by the variable stroke of the movable bottom 4:, which depends automatically on the amount of tobacco or other material lying above the opening 2; and secondly, by the use of reciprocating members such as those 20 and 21 acting separately and successively to fill parts of the 110 material into the opening, thus preventing the material in the casing from filling the opening all at once.

The sectors such as those 20 and 21 may be of any number and may be of variable shapes; in particular, they may be of angular shape (Fig. 4:) of which the edges may be either smooth or serrated.

Claims:

1. In a tobacco distributer, the combination of a tobacco casing having a fixed bottomwhich has an opening therein, a drawer sliding underneath such opening and having a measuring cavity therein, and a movable bottom located at one side of the said opening, inclined toward the latter and having a reciprocating movement with regard to such opening, the lower edge of the said movable bottom being adapted to push the tobacco toward the said opening, a spring attached to such movable bottom and adapted to pull the latter toward such opening, and a member having a reciprocating movement and adapted to carry the said movable bottom but in one direction only against the action of such spring.

2. In a tobacco distributer, the combination of a casing having a fixed bottom having an opening therein, a slidable drawer under such opening and having an alveole therein, a movable bottom on one side of the said opening, inclined toward the latter and having a reciprocatory motion with respect to such opening, two shafts mounted on the opposite sides of the casing, two movable arms within the casing above the two halves of such opening, such arms being respectively carried by such shafts and curved concentrically to the latter, and means to rock the said shafts in such a manner that the said arms are lowered alternately, one of such arms pressing each time the tobacco in one half of the said opening while the other arm is raised and lets the tobacco arrive in the other half of the opening.

3. A- device for delivering tobacco C0111- prising a casing for the tobacco the bottom of which is composed of an inclined movable part and of a fixed part located at the bottom of said movable part and having an opening therein, two shafts mounted on the opposite sides of the said casing, two arms passing through the walls of the casing and adapted to press the tobacco into the opening, said arms being carried respectively bythe said shafts and being curved concentrically to the latter, and means to swing said shafts, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, ElVlILE BELOT. Witnesses:

GENE Gocnm,

)AMILLE BLI rrRY.

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